Transformable carriage



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JLB. W. SGHURIGHT. TRA'NSPO-RMABLE CARRIAGE.

No. 523,179.. Patented July 17, 18.94.

mo Model.) 2 sheets-sheets.

J. E. w. SGHURICHT. TRANSPORMABLB CARRIAGE.

110. 523,179.- Pa1en1ed1u1y 17, 1894.

' NITED STATES PATENT' OFFICE.

JOHN E. W. SCHURICHT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TRANSFORMABLE CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,179, dated July 17, 1894.

v Application filed April 9, 1894. Serial No. 506,808. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. W. SCHURICHT, of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have lnvented certain new and useful Improvements in Transformable Storm Buggies and Carriages, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

i The object of this invention is to provide improved means for transforming an ordi nary storm buggy into a lclosed carriage.

This invention lconsists in the combination with an ordinary'storm buggy, of a base frame, a front, and doors removably and replaceably connected with said buggy and adapted to be used, or not, subject to the desire of the owner.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a storni buggy-body, and

the dotted lines therein showing the attachments, whereby said buggy is transformed into a carriage. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional elevation of the vehicle in the form of a carriage. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the front. o f one of the doors, and the lintel on which the same is mounted. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the base frame.

In the construction of the vehicle as shown,

the numeral designates the bed, having af The buggy is also proi seat 11, and a dash 12. vided with posts 13, 13 at each of therear corners thereof, and 14, 14 at the forward cor-v ners of the seat, on the top of which posts is `supported a roof-frame 15, having the ordinary oil-skin covering 15, ordinary curtains 16 being also provided inclosing the space between the posts 13 and 13, and the space between the posts 13 and 14. A wire frame 17 is fixed tothe posts 14, 14 and the forward projecting portion of the roof-frame 15, which wire frame is adapted to receive and hold the depending portion of the covering 16.

l Removably and replaceably mountedin the bed 10, in advance of the seat 11, is 'a baseframe, comprising ahorizontal bar 18, adapted to rest upon the bed immediately in 'advance of the seat; side-bars 19, 20, fixed to said horizontal bar, and extending forwardly therefrom to points of contact with the forward end of the said bed, the said side-bars hav ing notches in the forward corners thereof,

Fig. 4 is `a perspective viewV adapted to rest upon, and engage one of the frame bars of the said bed.

Fixed to, and extending longitudinally of, the side-bars 19, 2O are boards 21, 22, having their greatest transverse dimensions at right angles to the greatest transverse dimension of the said side-bars, the rear end portions of which boards are provided with notches 23, 6o 24, adapted for engagement with plates 25, 25, xed to theposts 14, 14, and projecting in front of the seat 11 at either end thereof, thereby preventing lateral movement of the base frame.

Fixed to, and extending downwardly from, the side-bars 19, 2O are pins 26, 27, which pins are adapted for engagement in perforations formed in the side-frame 28 of the bed 10.

A front is provided, comprising a base-bar 7o 29, vertical standards 30, 31 and a header 32, wooden, leather, or glass panels being seated in the said front, if desired. Seated in, and

V extendingupwardly from, the header 32 are pins 33,34 adapted for engagement in perforations in the lower portion of the forward bar ofthe top frame 15,and staples 35, 36 are seated in, and extend inwardly from, the in- ,ner face of the base `bar 29 in alignment with a vertical aperture 37 in a cross-bar 38 on the 8o forward portion of the base frame.

Doors 39 are provided, which said doors are hinged to lintels 40, which said lintels are provided with pins 4l, 42, adapted for engagement with perforations in the posts 14, 14. 8 5

When it is desiredV to employ the vehicle as a storm buggy, the doors, front and base frame are removed, and when it is desired to employ the vehicle as a carriage, the base frame is seated within the bed 10, by positioning 9o said base frame, so that the notches 23, 24 in the boards 2l, 22 engage with the plates 25, 25, and the pins 26, 27, in the side-bars 19, 20, engage in the perforations in the frame 28 of t-he said bed. '4

The front is positioned by inserting the pins 33, 34 in the perforations in the roof-frame 15, positioning the said front vertically, andinserting a pin 43 in the aligning staples 35, 36 and aperture 37. The doors are then poroo sitioned by inserting the pins, on the lintels 40, in the perforations'in the posts 14.

Any desired locking device, or handle may be employed for the doors 39, 39, and the carriage may be finished in any form, or style, desired by the user, my invention residing in the means of transforming a storm buggy into a carriage, or Vice versa, rather than in the details of construction of the carriage, and the nish thereof.

1. The combination with a buggy, of a removable and replaceable front, doors, and base frame.

2. The combination with a buggy body having a forwardly projecting roof-frame, a removable base-frame of a front removably and replaceably located vertically between the said roof portion andthe removable baseframe, and doors removably and replaceably located between said front and the side portions of the bngg buggy, the said doors being adapted for engagement with the said front.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN E. W; SOl-IURICHT.

Witnesses: Y

S. C. SWEET, M. GRIFFIN. 

